> Tried that several times, but the answer is always "it must be your DNS". That usually is the problem for what you're describing. > > Note that dag also has several mirrors that you > > can use. > > They're in the dag.repo file already. > > The oddity is that the hostnames all resolve perfectly happily if I > look them up manually with nslookup. It is really was a DNS problem > I would expect them to be returning null. Unless it's something like > an overenthusiatic timeout in the yum code or something? It defaults to 30 seconds I believe, which I wouldn't call over-enthusiastic. man yum.conf will show you the option. -- During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell
